The digital music revolution continues this week EMI's premium DRM-free, higher-quality download offering available with our first retail partner, Apple iTunes. This week, Apple launched its iTunes Plus option, featuring music from EMI artists -- including EMI CMG's entire digital catalogue -- in a higher quality DRM-free format. Because ...

EMI Christian Music Group took home 13 Dove Awards at the Gospel Music Association's annual award show last Wednesday. The evening started off with a bang with the show opening performance of "Lose My Soul" by TobyMac featuring Kirk Franklin and American Idol's Mandisa and a full gospel choir dancing and singing in the aisles. ...

EMI CMG Publishing has just been named the 2007 ASCAP Christian Music Publisher of the Year thanks in part to popular songs from top artists including Chris Tomlin, Sanctus Real, and David Crowder*Band. Tomlin, who recently received his second consecutive Gospel Music Association Artist and Male Vocalist of the Year Dove Awards, won the ASCAP ...

Vicky Beeching, special guest on the current Delirious?/Rebecca St. James Worship Revolution Tour of the U.S., will release PAINTING THE INVISIBLE, her second set with Sparrow Records, on April 3.   PAINTING THE INVISIBLE was produced by Dove Award winner Ed Cash (Chris Tomlin) and Nathan Nockels (Passion) and is led by the radio single, ...

Bethany Dillon, the popular singer/songwriter who released her 2004 self-titled debut album to commercial and critical acclaim at age fifteen, returns April 3 with a fresh-faced new studio project, WAKING UP. Suite 101 has already deemed the set "deeply satisfying on several levels." Led by first single "The Kingdom" (now ...

The new issue of Christianity Today magazine features an extensive cover story on the success of the Passion worship movement, its related musical artists, and the student ministry's exciting next steps. "Passion has not just shaped evangelical worship music, but a generation of American evangelicals," the magazine reports. "In ...

iTunes is celebrating the popular worship music of the Passion experience at a new centralized page on the site known as "The iTunes Guide to the Passion Movement." In addition to crisp categorization and easy links to every available Passion recording, there are also fun new "celebrity playlists" from Passion artists Chris ...

Tim Hughes, the British worship leader and Dove Award winner best known for writing the current #1 CCLI song, "Here I Am to Worship," will release his third album, HOLDING NOTHING BACK, on April 3 via Sparrow Records. "Worship is about surrender, holding nothing back and giving all of ourselves to the One who gave His everything ...

A recent piece in the Mobile Press-Register offers a candid look at the How Great Is Our God Tour featuring Dove Award winning artist-worshipers Chris Tomlin ("Indescribable") and Matt Redman ("The Heart of Worship") as well as Passion worship conference founder and speaker Louie Giglio. "It is a night of worship to ...

Artists featured on MUSIC INSPIRED BY THE MOTION PICTURE AMAZING GRACE are speaking out to raise awareness of modern day slavery, a social injustice still endured by millions of people worldwide. Now in theaters, Amazing Grace tells the inspiring story of William Wilberforce, the man behind a movement 200 years ago to abolish the slave trade in ...